It seems there are a number of routes:
- Sample sales - both general dress events, and sales by the individual designers. The divine Sassi Holford is holding her sale next month - too soon for my budgeting, but hoping to visit her in Janaury
- eBay - both for secondhand dresses, and also for people in China to copy Western designer dresses for a fraction of the cost. And I do mean a fraction
- Second hand dress sites - brides selling their worn once dresses
My favoured route at the moment is that of the sample sale. This is for two reasons: I'm pretty much sample size, apart from being a few inches too short. This means that the dresses should fit me everywhere except in length - and that's the bit you need to cut off sample dresses, where they've got dirty where they've dragged across the shop floor.
I can't believe I'm seriously planning on spending hundreds of pounds on one dress. Crazy.
